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able variety of any plant is procured, such as the striped 

 Antirrhinum magus, or doubl-e varieties of Wall-flower, 

 Sweet William, or Mule Pinks, attention should be paid 

 to the striking of cuttings during the summer, as the 

 only sure means of continuance. 



Biennials are sown in beds in the end of spring, and 

 are generally transplanted in the course of the autumn 

 into the places where they are intended to stand, that 

 they may be confirmed before winter, and shoot up 

 readily into-flower in the following summer. 



Annual Plants. — Many of the annual species, though 

 of fugitive duration, are possessed of much beauty of 

 hue and elegance of form. They ^re further valuable 

 from their pliability, so to speak, and the promptitude 

 with wdiich they may be used. • They are besides of 

 easy culture, many requiring nothing more than to have 

 the seeds sown in the spot where they are to grow and 

 flourish. Annuals may he divided into three classes, 

 the hardy, the half-hardy, and the tender. The first 

 class, as stated above, are sown at once in the ground 

 which they are to occupy ; the half-hm^dy succeed best 

 when aided at first by a slight hotbed, and then trans- 

 planted into the open air; the tender are kept in pots, 

 and treated as green-house or stove plants, to which de- 

 partments they properly belong. It is scarcely neces- 

 sary to remark, that the hardy and half-hardy sorts may 

 be grown either in patches or in beds, and are' subjected 

 to all the rules which regulate the disposition of common 

 border flowers. - . 



Hardy Annuals. — Pl§itystemon citlifornicus ; Col- 

 lomiii coccinea ; Leptosiphon androsace and densiflo- 

 rus ; Viscaria oculata and Binneyii ; Valerianella con- 

 gesta : Eucharidium concinnum ; Godetia viscosa, 



